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E. W. BENWAY.

LAMP CHIMNEY CLEANER.

No. 385.439. Patented July 3, 1888.

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:NITED STATES ELI W. BENIVAY, OF INDEPENDENCE,

KANSAS, ASEIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO BENJAMIN F. MASTERMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

LAMP-CHIMNEY CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,439, dated July 3, 1888.

Application filed October 4, 1587.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI W. BENWA'Y, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Independence, in the county of Montgomcryand State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp- Chimney Cleaners, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in lamp-chimney cleaners; and it consists in the novel construction herein shown, described, and claimed, whereby a chimney may be cleaned with ease and rapidity, and cheapness and simplicity of construction are obtained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section cut through line X X in Fig. 1.

The letter A designates the handle of this invention, and is provided at the center with the hollow cylinder B. The said hollow cylinder B is provided in the side on a line with the handle Awith the slots 0 0, through which the hooked ends of the pulling-wires D D extend. The said pulling A wires pass up through the said cylinder and are attached to the looped rims of the flexible spring-wires E E. The said wires E E are formed to the shape of the ordinary lampchi mney, and their ends are inserted and rigidly held in the end ot'the cylinder B. In the cleaner shown in the drawings three wires are used, bent in the center to form the small loops F, to which the pulling-wires D D are attached. The ends of the said wires E E that are inserted in the cylinder B are secured therein by driving the wooden plug G into the end of the said cylinder. The wood being soft, the said wires sink Upon into it and are held rigidly in place.

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opposite sides of the said plug are out the 40 grooves H H, which fit over the pulling-wires D D, allowing them to move freely.

To use this invention, a cloth, either wet or dry, is placed over the flexible wires E E. The operator then grasps the handle A and 5 presses the cleaner into the said chimney, the Wires E E yielding, so as to pass into the body of the said chimney. He new places the first and second fingers of the hand holding the cleaner over the hooked ends of the pullingwires D I), and by pulling them toward the said handle the flexible wires E E are dis tended to all parts of the said chimney. The chimney is now cleaned by revolving the said cleaner several times in the same. To take the cleaner out of the chimney, the hook ends of the pulling-wires D D are released and the cleaner drawn out of the chimney, the wires E E yielding as upon theintroduction into the same.

What I claim is In a chimney-cleaner such as described, the combination of the handle A, provided with a cylinder, B, flexible wires E, the ends of the said wires resting in the said cylinder, the (5 wooden plug G, driven into the end of the said cylinder and adapted to hold the said ends of the wires E resting therein, and pullingwires D D, attached to the upper end of the said flexible wires and provided with hooks at the 70 lower end near the said handle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELI XV. BENlVAY.

witnesses:

J. B. UNDERI-IILL,

WM. F. BOWYER. 

